Defense Secretary Says He Is For Encryption And Against Back Doors
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called for peace between Silicon Valley and the federal government amid a legal battle between Apple and the Justice Department over a locked iPhone used during the San Bernardino shootings.
“The only way we are going to get a good solution is by working together,” Carter told the audience at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. “To work our ways through our problems.”
Carter declined to comment directly about the iPhone fight because it does not involve the Pentagon, calling it a “law enforcement and litigation” matter. The Justice Department wants Apple AAPL 0.22% to build custom software that would sidestep the company’s tough security and encryption features so law enforcement can more easily access data on the disputed iPhone.
